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...first things the American Ornithologists' Union did after its organization in 1883 was to advertise for volunteer observers of bird migrations. From a young New Jersey bank clerk named Chapman came an enthusiastic response. Each weekday morning from early March to late May of 1884 Volunteer Chapman got up at dawn, gulped a cup of coffee, set out with notebook and field glasses to tramp the woods & fields around his home. He had to catch a 7:39 a. m. train to get to his Manhattan job, but when the spring reports were in Chapman's were judged...
Last week the Ornithologists' Union found itself once more honoring this same bird-lover. To him went the Brewster Medal for the year's best book on American birds. The prize was awarded for a revised edition of his Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, first published...
When, at 22, Frank Michler Chapman got to be head of his bank department, he resigned. Banks were all right, but he liked birds better. In 1888 he went to work in Manhattan's American Museum. For the past 25 years he has been the Museum's curator-in-chief of birds. He has done as much as any man living to teach his countrymen to know and love birds. He originated the Museum's brilliantly realistic habitat groups; founded a magazine Bird-Lore; lectured widely; composed standard guides and handbooks for amateurs...
...bird propaganda could be more persuasive than Birdman Chapman's own autobiography, published last month.* In it he thus sums up the spirit and purpose of his life: "I had a growing belief, which in time became a religion, in the recreational and spiritual value of close contact with nature, and birds, I was convinced, are nature's most eloquent expressions...
Birdman Chapman's scientific reputation rests securely on two 700-page volumes on the distribution of bird life in Colombia and Ecuador...